Help with losing story file and Twine now not working.

michikoleon

So we created a story, and accidentally closed Twine's application before saving. Upon reopening we just have a grey twine window with no options to do anything. We have accessed the HTML version of the story but it isn't showing up if I try to click and drag it and it doesn't even come up when I try to open in chrome.

It just seems broken. And now the entire Twine application doesn't even work to start a new story. I've deleted it and re-downloaded it, and I compressed the HTML file. Nothing is helping. Any suggestions?

TLDR; Closed without saving, can't open HTML file and now Twine doesn't work.

TheMadExile

When asking about an issue with one of the Twine applications, you should always state the type of Twine release—i.e. executable or browser-based—and its version, because advice will tend to vary based on that information. You should also include information about your OS.


Are you using the executable or browser-based edition of Twine 2 and what is its full version? Which OS are you using and what is its version?

VectorZ

I've had the same problem, it seems to have been fixed when I uninstalled Twine 2, then deleted the Twine folder in C:\Users\yourusername\appdata\Local

Found this solution on the following thread: https://twinery.org/forum/discussion/8523/twine-win64-no-longer-functions-an-error-occurred-during-startup-while-initially-synchronizing

I had no saved story at this time so I can't say if you'll get your story back unfortunately.

Good luck!